This week's baby name news from Appellation Mountain

BABY NAME HOPSCOTCH

This week + every week: two names, one piece of advice, and three lists to consider if you're looking for inspiration.

This week's names: mystical, magical Willow has become a Top 100 powerhouse. And easy-going Callum, long a favorite in the UK, is gaining ground in the US, too.

I love a good formal name/nickname combination, and I really don't mind if they're complicated. And yet, there's an elegance and simplicity to a see-it-say-it kind of name. Life is complicated. It's sort of lovely to be Jack, called Jack, or Kate, not Katherine.

THREE LISTS TO INSPIRE

John, Mary and the rest of the most popular given names of the last century.

Italian girl names, just right in Florence ... or Fresno.

Fresh word names for our sons, because no one wants to be Legend G. or Blaze R.

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This week's baby name news from Appellation Mountain

BABY NAME HOPSCOTCH

THREE LISTS TO INSPIRE

John, Mary and the rest of the most popular given names of the last century.

Italian girl names, just right in Florence ... or Fresno. Fresh word names for our sons, because no one wants to be Legend G. or Blaze R.

Italian girl names, just right in Florence ... or Fresno.

Fresh word names for our sons, because no one wants to be Legend G. or Blaze R.